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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.

Frederick Douglass

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Dangerous Indeed Knowledge Learning People Slave
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Class Force Ignorance Justice Poverty Prevail Property Safe Society
The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Against Conscience God Majority Man Universe
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Crop Favor Freedom Ground Men Philosophy
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Degrade Man One Liner Soul
I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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Credit Master Respect Teacher
Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Air Earth Existence Nature Perfection She Spiritual Women Power
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Rights Speech Suppress Violation Wrong
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
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Argument Convince Iron Need Time
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Gentleman Insult Man
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Country District Government People
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
It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Family Team Work Togetherness Unite
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Black Black Lives Matter Happiness Man Purchase White

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