Frederick Douglass: “The charge of laziness against the slave is ever on their lips, and is the standing apology for every species of cruelty…”

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.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

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.