Frederick Douglass: “I have talked with many men, but I remember none, who seemed so deeply excited upon the subject of slavery as he.”

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

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.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.