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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.

Frederick Douglass

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Honesty Life Nation Secure Truth
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
One and God make a majority.
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God Majority One Liner
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 ballot is the only safety.
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Ballot One Liner Safety
A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Brotherhood Confusion Joy Man National Smile Sorrow Tears Tongue
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 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
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Constitution Document Glorious Liberty
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
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
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Argument Convince Iron Need Time
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Brother Freedom Shame Slave
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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Darkness Mental Moral Necessary Possible Power Reason Slave Vision
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Expenditure Food House Immense Please Taste Wealth
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Inspirational Knowledge Man One Liner Slave

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