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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Frederick Douglass

A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Business Inspirational Progress Struggle
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Honesty Life Nation Secure Truth
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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