Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

How do you feel," said a friend to me, "when you are hooted and jeered on the street on account of your color?" "I feel as if an ass had kicked, but had hit nobody," was my answer.

Men who live by robbing their fellow men of their labor and liberty have forfeited their right to know anything of the thoughts, feelings, or purposes of those whom they rob and plunder. They have by the single act of slaveholding voluntarily placed themselves beyond the laws of justice and honor, and have become only fitted for companionship with thieves and pirates - the common enemies of God and of all mankind.

For no man who lives at all lives unto himself. He either helps or hinders all who are in anywise connected to him.

He was whipped oftener who was whipped easiest.

none to molest them or make them afraid.

A man’s troubles are always half disposed of when he finds endurance the only alternative.