Frederick Douglass: “Though the colored man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment which…”

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.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

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.

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.