Frederick Douglass: “With money, I could easily have managed the matter, and, therefore, I hit upon the plan of soliciting the privilege of…”

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.