Frederick Douglass: “Why may we not yet know with equal certainty when storms are in the moral sky, and how to avoid their desolating force?”

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.

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.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.