Frederick Douglass: “In addition to authors, poets, and scholars at home, the moral sense of the civilized world is with us.”

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

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

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

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.