Frederick Douglass: “We were compelled either to beg, or to steal, and we did both.”

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.