Frederick Douglass: “Lead and steel are the only arguments that they understand.”

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.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

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