Frederick Douglass: “Its perpetual reiteration in our newspapers and magazines has led men and women to regard him with averted eyes, dark…”

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

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.