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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Frederick Douglass

A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Capacity Enjoyment Exertion Extend Honor Man Woman
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
You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Giving Inspirational One Liner Power
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
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
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Book Reading Slave
Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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Education Freedom Glorious Liberty Man Truth Uplift
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Climb Diversity Height Judgment Justice Rise
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
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
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Brother Freedom Shame Slave
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Black Lives Matter Justice Pity Sympathy
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Gentleman Insult Man
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Cause Rebel Worse
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Justice One Liner Poor Rule

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

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