Frederick Douglass: “The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon!”

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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

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

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.