Frederick Douglass — "The fact is, the people of the South are not more in favor of slavery, than the …"

"The highest function of a citizen is to question authority."

"The man who has suffered the wrong is the man to demand the right—the man who has suffered the wrong is the man to describe the wrong—the man who has suffered the wrong is the man to expose the wrong—…"

"Prejudice against color is stronger north than south; it hangs around my neck like a heavy weight."

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

"Abraham Lincoln was not, in the fullest sense of the word, either our man or our model. In his interests, in his associations, in his habits of thought, and in his prejudices, he was a white man. He w…"