The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

Frederick Douglass

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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Gentleman Insult Man
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Expectation Justice Sing Slave Work
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
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
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Degrade Man One Liner Soul
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
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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Earthquake Fire Gentle Inspirational Light Shower Storm
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
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Constitution Document Glorious Liberty
He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Blow Freedom Strike
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Man Slave Time
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Justice One Liner Poor Rule
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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Appreciation Battle Describe Grwoth Lost Moral Nation Observation Patriotism Reflection Requirement Understand Win
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Claim Freedom Men Politics Respect Rights Women Women Rights
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
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Black Black Lives Matter Happiness Man Purchase White
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Education Slave Value
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
You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Giving Inspirational One Liner Power
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
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Book Reading Slave
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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Class Force Ignorance Justice Poverty Prevail Property Safe Society
Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Mad Man One Liner Oppression Wise
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Inspirational One Liner Progress Struggle
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Book Forever Freedom Learning One Liner Reading
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 man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Allow Help Man
Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Finding Hard Time Slave
It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Family Team Work Togetherness Unite
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
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Beautiful Deep Place Proper Time Truth
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Black Lives Matter Color Equality Mind Skin
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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One Liner Slave
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Advocate Cause Humanity Justice Man
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Inspirational Right Unite Wrong
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Brother Freedom Shame Slave
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Black Lives Matter Constitution Country Honor People Problem
Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Appearance Disappear Forever Freedom
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Business Inspirational Progress Struggle

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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