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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.

Frederick Douglass

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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One Liner Slave
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
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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Credit Master Respect Teacher
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
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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Country Earth People Politics World
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Color Constitution Country Degard Evil Ignorance People Poverty
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Brother Freedom Shame Slave
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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Hard Time Moral Physical Struggle
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Inspirational Knowledge Man One Liner Slave
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
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Answer Freedom Legs Prayer Receive
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Expectation Justice Sing Slave Work
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
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
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Fellow Finding Man Neck Philosophy
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 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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