Frederick Douglass: “Some of these tend to dim the lustre of the American name, and chill the hopes once entertained for the cause of…”

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.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.