Frederick Douglass: “The border men hate the Indians; the Californian, the Chinaman; the Mohammedan, the Christian, and vice versa.”

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.

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.

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