Frederick Douglass: “These institutions grew out of the necessities of the times to meet the wants of colored youth for higher and…”

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.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.