Frederick Douglass: “It was not merely the agency of Master Thomas, in breaking up and destroying my Sabbath school, that shook my confidence…”

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.