Frederick Douglass: “I had become quite useful to several young colored men, who had made me their teacher.”

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.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.