Frederick Douglass: “The one describes the Deity as impartial, no respecter of persons, and the other the Goddess of Justice as blindfolded…”

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

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.