Frederick Douglass: “The sight of the broad brim and the plain, Quaker dress, which met me at every turn, greatly increased my sense of…”

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

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

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.

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