Frederick Douglass: “I set this down as partly constitutional with my race, and partly conventional.”

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

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 good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.