Frederick Douglass: “Let the statesmen of our country live up to their convictions.”

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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.

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.