Frederick Douglass: “We were both victims to the same overshadowing evil—she, as mistress, I, as slave.”

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.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

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