Frederick Douglass: “With money and property comes the means of knowledge and power.”

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.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

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

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.