If everyone could feel everyone else’s pain, who would torture? - Octavia E. Butler

You're truly free for the first time. What could be more difficult than that?

He didn’t look all right to me. “Has anyone gone for the doctor?”
“Marse Tom don’t hardly get Doc West for ague. He says all the doc knows is bleeding and blistering and purging and puking and making folks sicker than they was to start.”

All struggles
Are essentially
Power struggles.
Who will rule,
Who will lead,
Who will define,
refine,
confine,
design,
Who will dominate.
All struggles
Are essentially
Power struggles, And most
are no more intellectual
than two rams
knocking their heads together.