Frederick Douglass: “Never went there a man to the grave loaded with heavier curses.”

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

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

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.

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.