Frederick Douglass: “On the contrary, it must increase and intensify his wrongs.”

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

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

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.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.