Frederick Douglass: “Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle.”

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.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.