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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.

Frederick Douglass

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
Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Color Father Sex Truth
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
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave
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
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
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
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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
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 gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Gentleman Insult Man
Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Finding Hard Time Slave
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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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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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
Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Circumstance Coward Fortune Happy Life Opportunity Vigorous Wise

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