Frederick Douglass: “Suspicion and torture are the approved methods of getting at the truth, here.”

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.