I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.
The ballot is the only safety.
Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.
The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.
Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.
I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored mans cause than those of the Democratic party.