Frederick Douglass: “His words made a deep impression on my mind, and I verily felt that some such work was before me, though I could not see…”

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

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

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.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.