Frederick Douglass: “What he had lost by the sword, he had more than gained by the truth.”

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.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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

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