When I was about thirteen years old, and had succeeded in learning to read, every increase of knowledge, especially anything respecting the free states, was an additional weight to the almost intolerable burden of my thought, 'I am a slave for life'. To my bondage I could see no end. It was a terrible reality, and I shall never be able to tell how sadly that thought chafed my young spirit.


pp. 102–103. - Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)

Frederick Douglass Quotes

When I was about thirteen years old, and had succeeded in learning to read, every increase of knowledge, especially anything respecting the free...

When I was about thirteen years old, and had succeeded in learning to read, every increase of knowledge, especially anything respecting the free...

When I was about thirteen years old, and had succeeded in learning to read, every increase of knowledge, especially anything respecting the free...

When I was about thirteen years old, and had succeeded in learning to read, every increase of knowledge, especially anything respecting the free...