Frederick Douglass: “The downward steps are marked at first by slow degrees and by increasing momentum, going from bad to worse as they…”

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

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.

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

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