Frederick Douglass: “It is because I regard the one as good, and pure, and holy, that I cannot but regard the other as bad, corrupt, and…”

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

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.