Frederick Douglass: “The right to take my earnings was the right of the robber.”

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

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

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

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