Frederick Douglass: “I had now a new conception of my degraded condition.”

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

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.

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

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