Abigail Leventhal

“I'm allowed to hate someone else's dream, even if it's my reality.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“The morality of free society can have no application to slave society. Slaveholders have made it almost impossible for the slave to commit any crime, known either to the laws of God or to the laws of man. If he steals, he takes his own; if he kills his master, he imitates only the heroes of the revolution. Slaveholders I hold to be individually and collectively re sponsible for all the evils which grow out of the horrid relation, and I believe they will be so held at the judgment, in the sight of a just God. Make a man a slave, and you rob him of moral responsibility. Freedom of choice is the essence of all accountability”
― Fredrick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom

“It’s easier to be angry than to feel the pain underneath it.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“All is gloom. The grave is at the door. And now, when weighed down by the pains and aches of old age, when the head inclines to the feet, when the beginning and ending of human existence meet, and helpless infancy and painful old age combine together—at this time, this most needful time, the time for the exercise of that tenderness and affection which children only can exercise toward a declining parent—my poor old grandmother, the devoted mother of twelve children, is left all alone, in yonder little hut, before a few dim embers”
― Fredrick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom