Frederick Douglass: “In his own cause he can beat a Boston lawyer, but he is dumb when asked to plead the cause of others.”

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

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.