Frederick Douglass: “I need not be told that the cause I have undertaken to support is not to be maintained by any mere confident assertions…”

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.