Frederick Douglass: “Every new-born white babe comes armed from the Eternal presence, to make war on slavery.”

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

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.