Frederick Douglass: “There is a vestige of decency, a sense of shame, that does much to curb and check those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty…”

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

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

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.