Frederick Douglass: “Happily for us and for the honor of the Republic, the United States Constitution is just, liberal, and friendly.”

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

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

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.

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.