The time for a full statement of what I know and of ALL I know of this desperate but sublimely disinterested effort to emancipate the slaves of Maryland and Virginia from their cruel taskmasters, has not yet come, and may never come.
From his autobiography, Douglass reflects on the timing and potential future revelations regarding his knowledge of the Harper's Ferry insurrection.
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No people to whom liberty is given, can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.
The battle against popular prejudice will have been fought and won, and in common with all other races and colors, we shall have an equal chance in the race of life.
Taking all the circumstances into consideration, the colored people have no reason to despair.