Frederick Douglass: “It was unpopular for its very fidelity to the cause of liberty and justice.”

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.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.