Frederick Douglass: “If he were greeted with smiles before, he meets with frowns now; and it shall go well with him if he be not subjected to…”

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

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

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.