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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.

Frederick Douglass

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Motivational Success Words Work
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
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Business Demand Market Politics Power
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
I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Die Inspirational Kill One Liner Run Stand
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
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
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Business Inspirational Progress Struggle
The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Country Destiny
A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Carve Circumstance Man Work
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Claim Freedom Men Politics Respect Rights Women Women Rights
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
A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Brotherhood Confusion Joy Man National Smile Sorrow Tears Tongue
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
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
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

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