Frederick Douglass: “The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.”

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.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

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