Frederick Douglass: “I have to inform you that the religion of the southern states, at this time, is the great supporter, the great…”

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

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.