I have been greatly helped to bear up under unfriendly conditions, too, by a constitutional tendency to see the funny sides of things which has enabled me to laugh at follies that others would soberly resent.
Douglass explains that his natural inclination to find humor in difficult situations has been a crucial aid in enduring hostile environments and laughing at absurdities others would resent.
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Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.