Frederick Douglass: “All that a man hath will he give for his life.”

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

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.