Frederick Douglass: “But you will ask me, can these things be possible in a land professing Christianity?”

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.