Frederick Douglass: “It is no disparagement to truth, that it can only prevail where reason prevails.”

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

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.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.