Frederick Douglass: “Very much that was said to me in respect to my imperfect literary attainments, I felt to be most painfully true.”

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.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

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