Frederick Douglass: “For the moment, the dreams of my youth and the hopes of my manhood were completely fulfilled.”

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

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.

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.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.