Frederick Douglass: “I can find but one answer, and that is, his intense hatred to oppression.”

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.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

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

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