Frederick Douglass: “It is seldom the lot of mortals to have truer and better friends than were the slaves on this farm.”

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

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.

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