Frederick Douglass: “The world moves, and the conditions of success and failure have changed.”

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

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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.