Frederick Douglass: “It seems impossible for such men to judge a coloured man fairly.”

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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

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

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.