Frederick Douglass: “When a white man steals, robs or murders, his crime is visited upon his own head alone.”

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

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.