Frederick Douglass: “Among all the great capitals of the world it is preëminently the capital of free institutions.”

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.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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.