Frederick Douglass: “Plainly enough, the exodus is less harmful as a measure than are the arguments by which it is supported.”

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

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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