Frederick Douglass: “I would not have it embrace only the élite, but I would have it include the lowly.”

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.

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.