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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.

Frederick Douglass

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
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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Brotherhood Confusion Joy Man National Smile Sorrow Tears Tongue
Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Chain Freedom Independence
The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Country Destiny
He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Blow Freedom Strike
Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Ability Application Consistency Done Greatness Man Need Power Proper
You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Giving Inspirational One Liner Power
A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Carve Circumstance Man Work
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
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Argument Convince Iron Need Time
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy
We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Motivational Success Words Work
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
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
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
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Amount Hand Man Time

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