Frederick Douglass: “It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood.”

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.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

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

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