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| 12 | 9 | View more quotes about certainly">Certainly I, in my freedom, considering such things, had had no comprehension of the collar, and what it would be to wear it. |
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| 12 | 6 | What a total, radical, cataclysmic transformation this wreaks in one's being, in one's self, in one's heart, and understanding. |
| 12 | 7 | A free woman, I suspect, as she is free, cannot begin to understand the nature and world of the slave. |
| 12 | 8 | It is a different nature and world. |
| 12 | 9 | Certainly I, in my freedom, considering such things, had had no comprehension of the collar, and what it would be to wear it. |
| 12 | 10 | It is a different world, different, profound, and deep, being owned, being vendible. |
| 12 | 11 | Perhaps the free woman might have some intellectual sense of such matters, verbal, abstract, remote, superficial, or such, or thinks she does, but, I assure you, that intellectual comprehension is quite other than the realization of the reality, that one is, indeed, a slave. |
| 12 | 12 | It is one thing to hear of the whip, and another to be struck with it; it is one thing to think of chains, and another to have them locked on one's limbs; it is one thing to consider a sale, or even to view one, and another to feel the sawdust beneath your bared feet and hear the bids shouted down from the tiers. |