Frederick Douglass: “I cannot breathe for you, or you for me; I must breathe for myself, and you for yourself.”

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.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.