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He who would be free must strike the first blow.

Frederick Douglass

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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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
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Advocate Cause Humanity Justice 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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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
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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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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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Inspirational Right Unite Wrong
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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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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