Frederick Douglass: “In spite of all your religion and laws he is a rejected man.”

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

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.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.