Frederick Douglass: “With their kindly aid, obtained at different times and in different places, I finally succeeded in learning to read.”

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.

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.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.