Frederick Douglass: “Until this blow was struck, the prospect for freedom was dim, shadowy and uncertain.”

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

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

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.

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.