Frederick Douglass: “They could kill him, but they could not answer him.”

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

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

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

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