Frederick Douglass: “There is no roof under which you would be more safe than mine, and there is nothing in my house which you might need for…”

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

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

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.