This book is a collection of 65 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Frederick Douglass:

"Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude."

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."

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

"The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness."

"The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart"

"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."

"The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America."