Frederick Douglass: “I did not hesitate to let it be known of me, that the white man who expected to succeed in whipping, must also succeed…”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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

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 friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.