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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.

Frederick Douglass

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
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
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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Country District Government People
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Cause Rebel Worse
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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People
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
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Gentleman Insult 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
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
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Box Man Rights
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Acceptance General Meet Resistance Slow Truth
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
He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Blow Freedom Strike
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
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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One Liner Slave

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.

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