Frederick Douglass: “America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

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