Frederick Douglass: “God has interposed an insuperable obstacle to any such result.”

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 laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

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

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