Frederick Douglass: “Let the American people cultivate kindness and humanity.”

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.

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

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.