Frederick Douglass: “Formerly, devotion to slavery was the condition upon which the success of the Democratic party was based.”

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

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African 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.

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