Frederick Douglass: “They are compelled by their position to either serve the one and oppose the other, and they cannot serve or oppose both…”

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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.