Frederick Douglass: “The world moves, and the conditions of success and failure have changed.”

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

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

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.