Frederick Douglass: “My means of escape were provided for me by the very men who were making laws to hold and bind me more securely in…”

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

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

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.