Frederick Douglass: “If the influences against us are strong, those for us are also strong.”

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.

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.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.