Frederick Douglass: “That influence met me almost everywhere outside of pronounced anti-slavery circles, and sometimes even within them.”

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.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

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