Frederick Douglass: “When I was sent of errands, I always took my book with me, and by going one part of my errand quickly, I found time to…”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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.

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.

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.