Frederick Douglass: “Instead of quiet, they have produced alarm; instead of peace, they have brought us war; and so it must ever be.”

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

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

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.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.