Frederick Douglass: “A man without force is without the essential dignity of humanity.”

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

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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

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.