Frederick Douglass: “The friends of freedom in England saw in the negro a man, a moral and responsible being.”

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

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

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

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.