Frederick Douglass: “I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.”

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.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.