Frederick Douglass: “Would not the charge of cowardice, certain to be brought against you, prove more damaging than that of amalgamation?”

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

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

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

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.