Frederick Douglass: “The white American has had his say both North and South.”

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.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.