Frederick Douglass: “There is nothing to which prejudice is not equal in the way of perverting the truth and inflaming the passions of men.”

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.