Frederick Douglass: “The test of the real civilization of the community came when I applied for work at my trade, and then my repulse was…”

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

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.