It was interest against interest, but something more and deeper: for, while there was aggrandizement of the landed aristocracy on the one side, there was famine and pestilence on the other.
Frederick Douglass describes the profound social and economic stakes of the Corn Law debates in England, highlighting the human cost of political decisions.
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I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.
It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.
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.