Frederick Douglass: “If oppression makes a wise man mad it may do the same, and worse, to a people who are not reputed wise.”

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

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

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.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.