Frederick Douglass: “They not only gave myself and wife bread and shelter, but taught us how to begin to secure those benefits for ourselves.”

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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.

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.