Frederick Douglass: “It springs out of a desire to throw off just responsibility and to evade the performance of disagreeable but manifest…”

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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

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

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.