Frederick Douglass: “The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you…”

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.