Frederick Douglass: “It is beyond the power of slavery to annihilate affinities recognized and established by the Almighty.”

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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

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

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.