Frederick Douglass: “I had drawn blood from him; and, even without this satisfaction, I should have been victorious, because my aim had not…”

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

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

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.

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