The President and the Freedom Fighter Quotes

“We looked up to [Frederick Douglass] almost as we do to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. —Congressman George W. Murray”
― Brian Kilmeade, The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

“In an early draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson called slavery “a cruel war against human nature itself.”1 James Madison argued that “it would be wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.”2 Benjamin Franklin, a former slaveholder, described slavery as “an atrocious debasement of human nature.”3 But in the early days of the republic, slavery remained legal, the law of the land.”
― Brian Kilmeade, The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

“I am young and unknown to many of you; I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life. I have no wealthy or popular relations or friends to recommend me. My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the county, and if elected, they will have conferred a favour upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labours to compensate. But if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.[13]”
― Brian Kilmeade, The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

“In the coming years the enslaved child, by then a man, would quote Auld’s words often. They had sparked the crucial understanding that reading and knowledge were the keys to his freedom. Young as he was, Freddy saw that ignorance was a weapon in the hands of the slaveholder, one that was far more dangerous than the whip.”
― Brian Kilmeade, The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul