Frederick Douglass: “The slave must be subjected to these, or he ceases to be a slave.”

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.