Frederick Douglass: “The weapons of our warfare for equal rights are not carnal but simple truth, addressed to the hearts and sense of…”

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

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

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.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.