"My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!"

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Source : Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Olaudah Equiano (2016). “Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave”, p.344, ShandonPress

Solomon Northup

#Agony Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Burning Quotes

“Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.”
“God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.”
“I believe the printed word is more than sacred Beyond the gauge of good or bad The human right to let your soul fly free and naked Above the violence of the fearful and sad”
“Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?”
“Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.”
“Learning and sex until rigor mortis.”
“It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.”
“You stick your nose in the dirt until you find something that smells good.”

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