Frederick Douglass: “I was grander upon my mother’s knee than a king upon his throne.”

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

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

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.