Frederick Douglass: “If I have done something for that cause, I am after all more a debtor to it than it is debtor to me.”

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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.

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.