Frederick Douglass: “Wolsey could not tell Cromwell to fling away ambition properly only when he had flung away his own.”

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.

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.

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