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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.

Frederick Douglass

The ballot is the only safety.
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Ballot One Liner Safety
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
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
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
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
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
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
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Inspirational Right Unite Wrong
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Constitution Document Glorious Liberty
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
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
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Discourage Encounter Future Hope Prediction Resistance
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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Against Conscience God Majority Man Universe
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
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Expectation Justice Sing Slave Work
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Blood Man Safety Slave

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