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“Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.”
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

“...So we passed, handcuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington, through the Captial of a nation, whose theory of government, we are told, rests on the foundation of man's inalienable right to life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness! Hail! Columbia, happy land, indeed!”
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

“I don't want to survive, I want to live.”
― Solomon Northup

“Call me Ishmael.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale