Frederick Douglass: “For the present, it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race.”

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

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

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.