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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Frederick Douglass

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
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Inspirational One Liner Progress Struggle
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Dangerous Indeed Knowledge Learning People Slave
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
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Gentleman Insult Man
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
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 slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slave Wait
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
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
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
The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Against Conscience God Majority Man Universe
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 destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Country Destiny
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Inspirational Right Unite Wrong
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Rights Speech Suppress Violation Wrong

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

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