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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

Frederick Douglass

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Country District Government People
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Business Demand Market Politics Power
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Business Inspirational Progress Struggle
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
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Gentleman Insult Man
It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Family Team Work Togetherness Unite
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
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
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
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Constitution Document Glorious Liberty
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Black Lives Matter Color Equality Mind Skin
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
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
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Dangerous Indeed Knowledge Learning People Slave
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Book Reading Slave
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

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