Frederick Douglass: “But this excuse is not employed by the lynchers, though it is sometimes so employed by those who apologise for the…”

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

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

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.

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.