Frederick Douglass: “I find myself regarded and treated at every turn with the kindness and deference paid to white people.”

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.

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.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.