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One and God make a majority.

Frederick Douglass

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
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Future Inspirational Let Go Past Present
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
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
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Brother Freedom Shame Slave
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
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Inspirational Right Unite Wrong
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 silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Business Inspirational Progress Struggle
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
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Cause Rebel Worse
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
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 slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slave Wait
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

One and God make a majority.

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