Frederick Douglass: “While it modifies and shapes all physical conditions, it is itself superior to all such conditions.”

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.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

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

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.