Frederick Douglass: “When he commits a crime, the whole race is made responsible.”

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

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.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

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.