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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.

Frederick Douglass

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slave Wait
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
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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Ourselves People Respect
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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Capacity Enjoyment Exertion Extend Honor Man Woman
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
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Freedom Roads Seldom Travel
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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People
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Inspirational Knowledge Man One Liner 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
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Certain People Work World
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
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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One Liner Slave
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
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
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Degrade Man One Liner Soul
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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Earthquake Fire Gentle Inspirational Light Shower Storm

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