Frederick Douglass: “I could see Harper's Ferry only as a trap of steel, and ourselves in the wrong side of it.”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

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