Frederick Douglass: “Exceptions there may be, but this is true of religious slaveholders, as a class.”

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 friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.