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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

Frederick Douglass

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Honesty Life Nation Secure Truth
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
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Discourage Encounter Future Hope Prediction Resistance
Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Ballot Box Daughter Education Knowledge School Son
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
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Black Lives Matter Justice Pity Sympathy
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
A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Brotherhood Confusion Joy Man National Smile Sorrow Tears Tongue
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Cease Existence Liberty Meaning Opinion Right
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Class Force Ignorance Justice Poverty Prevail Property Safe Society
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Blood Man Safety Slave
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
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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Array Character Community Cover Destiny Glory Majestic Shame Share
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Amount Hand Man Time
We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Motivational Success Words Work
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

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