It is Easier to Build Strong Children

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

-Frederick Douglass








Fredrick Douglass was a slave who learned to read, escaped, and eventually was able to buy his freedom. He lived in the North as the US fought the Civil War, publishing a newspaper and speaking out as a well-known abolitionist. At the 1888 Republican National Convention, Douglass became the first African-American to receive a vote for President of the United States in a major party's roll call vote.