Frederick Douglass: “What he had lost by the sword, he had more than gained by the truth.”

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.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.