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The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom. — Solomon Northup

She wasn't certain what he was going to work on, being a caveman all the time, or trying not to be a caveman most of the time. — Christine Feehan

with a scrap of bacon on her — Solomon Northup

The girl anchors the stage, sucks in the male gaze, and, depending on who she is, throws her own gaze back out into the audience. — Kim Gordon

The best dancer appeared to be considered the one who could whoop the loudest, jump the farthest, and utter the most excruciating noise. — Solomon Northup

My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell! — Solomon Northup

Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil. — Solomon Northup

Is everything right because the law allows it? — Solomon Northup

one knee, with a groan, I released my hold upon his throat, — Solomon Northup

For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement. — Ira Berlin

under other circumstances and other influences, — Solomon Northup

Liv had made it to Dragon Con. She had people to stay with and money in her pocket. Now all she needed to do was meet Spartan and she could die happy. — Danika Stone

I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed,
The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest. — Solomon Northup

woollyheads and silvergrays, and am unable to understand — Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave — Solomon Northup

Eliza, stop crying, You let sorrow take over you; you will drown in it — Solomon Northup

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my situation, however, the more I became — Solomon Northup

What difference is there in the color of the soul? — Solomon Northup

God, I love you so much I won't ever try to have sex again. — Ben Neihart

Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it. — Solomon Northup

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear. — Rose Kennedy

Alas! I had not then learned the measure of "man's inhumanity to man," nor to what limitless extent of wickedness he will go for the love of gain — Solomon Northup

Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I don't want to survive, I want to live. — Solomon Northup

The challenges that the homeless face aren't dissimilar to those in developing countries. — Leila Janah

Death was far less terrible than the living prospect that was before us — Solomon Northup

Evil deeds and lies - kept hidden - ruin lives. Secrets give evil the power to grow. — Nikki Sex

Let not those who have never been placed in like circumstances judge me harshly — Solomon Northup

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery; — Solomon Northup

Adroitly that there was — Solomon Northup

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear - dogs, alligators or men! — Solomon Northup

case with Cocodrie Bayou, which Solomon must have heard with a starting "p." Here is a list — Solomon Northup

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public, — Solomon Northup

Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling. — Cassandra Clare

Not by human dwellings
not in crowded cities alone, are the sights and sounds of life. The wildest places of the earth are full of them. — Solomon Northup

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person. — Solomon Northup

Drawn up and signed by the proper parties, wherein Epps acknowledged he — Solomon Northup