Frederick Douglass: “Put us in Kansas or in Africa, and until we learn to save more than we spend, we are sure to sink and perish.”

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.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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.

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.