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He who would be free must strike the first blow.

Frederick Douglass

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Expenditure Food House Immense Please Taste Wealth
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
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
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Beautiful Deep Place Proper Time Truth
We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Motivational Success Words Work
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slave Wait

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