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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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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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