Frederick Douglass: “It is because I regard the one as good, and pure, and holy, that I cannot but regard the other as bad, corrupt, and…”

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.

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

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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.