Frederick Douglass: “The school of the negro since leaving slavery has not been much of an improvement on his former condition.”

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

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