Frederick Douglass: “It remains now to be seen whether we have the needed courage to have that cause entirely removed from the Republic.”

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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.