As it is, I rejoice in having engaged in the enterprise, and count it joy to have been able to suffer, in many ways, for its success, and for the success of the cause to which it has been faithfully devoted.
Reflecting on the personal sacrifices made in establishing and maintaining his abolitionist newspaper, 'The North Star.'
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Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.
The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.
This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.
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.