Frederick Douglass: “It is false, misleading and prejudicial, and, like all other falsehoods, must eventually come to naught.”

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

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.

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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