Frederick Douglass: “Now I hold that the American Negro owes no more to the Negroes in Africa than he owes to the Negroes in America.”

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.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.