Frederick Douglass: “Each may choose his own friends and associates without interference or dictation of any.”

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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

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.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.