Frederick Douglass: “The light of no day in our national history has brought to the American people a more intense bereavement, a deeper…”

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

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.

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

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.