Frederick Douglass: “The great mass of slaveholders look upon education among the slaves as utterly subversive of the slave system.”

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.