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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.

Frederick Douglass

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Motivational Success Words Work
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Freedom Roads Seldom Travel
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
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Cease Existence Liberty Meaning Opinion Right
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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Injustice Measure People Quiet Wrong
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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Attention Men Practical Theory Thinking Value Worth
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
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
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
Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Chain Freedom Independence
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Fellow Finding Man Neck Philosophy
The ballot is the only safety.
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Ballot One Liner Safety
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Gentleman Insult Man
The opposite of compromise is character.
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Character Compromise One Liner Opposite
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
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
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
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Box Man Rights
What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Country Earth People Politics World
Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Ability Application Consistency Done Greatness Man Need Power Proper
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Cause Rebel Worse
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
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Justice One Liner Poor Rule
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
Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Education Slave Value
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Black Freedom Party Progress Republic

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