Frederick Douglass: “But any measure is vindicated by its necessity and its results.”

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.

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

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