Frederick Douglass — "Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave."

"Should a slave, when assaulted, but raise his hand in self defense, the white assaulting party is fully justified by southern, or Maryland, public opinion, in shooting the slave down."

"I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither …"

"There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."

"I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted."