“Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.”
Quote by Frederick Douglass
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Source: 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
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“Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.”
Source: Robert Frost
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“It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.”
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