Frederick Douglass: “He knew the American people better than they knew themselves, and his truth was based upon this knowledge.”

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

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

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.