Frederick Douglass: “This we did by begging and stealing, whichever came handy in the time of need, the one being considered as legitimate as…”

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.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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