Frederick Douglass: “Apply these sublime and glorious truths to the situation now before you.”

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

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.