Frederick Douglass: “Does a slave look dissatisfied with his condition?”

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

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.

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