Frederick Douglass: “I loved all mankind, slaveholders not excepted though I abhorred slavery more than ever.”

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

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.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

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.