Frederick Douglass: “They measure and esteem men according to their moral and intellectual worth, and not according to the color of their…”

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

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.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

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