Frederick Douglass: “In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity.”

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.