Frederick Douglass: “Talk of thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive’s door?”

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.

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.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

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