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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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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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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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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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