Frederick Douglass: “The man who takes his earnings must be able to convince him that he has a perfect right to do so.”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.