Frederick Douglass: “It was the same old party in a new dress, and time has shown that it was as full of life and power as ever.”

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.