Frederick Douglass: “Citizenship evidently includes all the rights of citizens, whether State or national.”

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

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.

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

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