Frederick Douglass: “Had some men made such display of rigid virtue, I should have rejected it, as affected, false and hypocritical, but in…”

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

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

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