Frederick Douglass: “He that was covered with chains, and that is now being covered with glory, and whom we will send back a gentleman.”

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

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