Frederick Douglass: “I had not received any orders, and had violated none, and there was, therefore, no excuse for flogging me.”

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.

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

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.