Knowledge = Freedom

I have this idea. An idea that explains it all. I don't know how long it'll last, or where it will lead. I feel as if it will take me to a door. A door of freedom and knowledge. Although, there's people and obstacles standing in my way, acting as brick walls, from which I must climb over to get out of this filthy place. I seem to feel a connection with Fredrick Douglass as he, in chapter 6, believes he must learn more and see more of what's out there after getting a small taste of what we now call "wisdom". He must too climb over those high walls to absorb the greatness of being a literate slave. A quality most slave owners fear.

 “If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell. A nigger should know nothing but to obey his master—to do as he is told to do. Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now,” said he, “if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave."

This selection clearly states the necessity Douglass has to overcome this tedious wall of ignorance.  He is eager to taste all the pleasures of freedom, and we certainly can predict that he is not going to stop until he is a free man.