Fredrick Douglass’s motivational passage “Learning to Read” reinforces the fact that everything is possible. No matter weather you believe the statement to be true, this message states that no matter the condition, if you set one’s mind to it, it can be accomplished. For example, as a slave, reading and writing is not a privilege that everyday people, such as you and I, get to experience. During this time, slaves reading and writing was comparable to attempting to murder someone now days. This was a “crime” to learn, read, write or challenge the right at a formal education was punishable in some of the worst ways. However, for this individual slave, he was driven to learning how to read, and eventually learning to write. With any type of education
