Frederick Douglass: “Nature had made us friends; slavery made us enemies.”

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

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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.