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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Frederick Douglass

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
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Argument Convince Iron Need Time
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Endurance Limitation Prescribe
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 thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Cause Rebel Worse
He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Blow Freedom Strike
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
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Brother Freedom Shame Slave
Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Education Slave Value
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Inspirational Right Unite Wrong
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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Claim Freedom Men Politics Respect Rights Women Women Rights
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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Darkness Mental Moral Necessary Possible Power Reason Slave Vision
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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Country Earth People Politics World
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
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Black Lives Matter Constitution Country Honor People Problem
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Acceptance General Meet Resistance Slow Truth

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

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