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Our destiny is largely in our hands.

Frederick Douglass

A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Man One Liner Work
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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Color Constitution Country Degard Evil Ignorance People Poverty
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Expectation Justice Sing Slave Work
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Hard Time Moral Physical Struggle
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Fellow Finding Man Neck Philosophy
Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Finding Hard Time Slave
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Character Color Man
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Black Freedom Party Progress Republic
Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Color Father Sex Truth
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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Injustice Measure People Quiet Wrong
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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Allow Help Man
The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Country Destiny
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Constitution Document Glorious Liberty
The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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Claim Earn History Human Liberty Progress Show
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Man Slave Time

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