Frederick Douglass: “We stand to-day only in the twilight of American liberty.”

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

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

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.