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Oppression makes a wise man mad.

Frederick Douglass

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
Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Education Slave Value
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Inspirational Knowledge Man One Liner 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
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Brother Freedom Shame Slave
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Color Constitution Country Degard Evil Ignorance People Poverty
Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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Ourselves People Respect
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Crop Favor Freedom Ground Men Philosophy
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
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Beautiful Deep Place Proper Time Truth
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Book Reading Slave
The ballot is the only safety.
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Ballot One Liner Safety
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
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Expectation Justice Sing Slave Work
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
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slave Wait

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