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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

Frederick Douglass

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
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
The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Hard Time Moral Physical Struggle
I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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Credit Master Respect Teacher
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
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
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
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Advocate Cause Humanity Justice Man
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Degrade Man One Liner Soul
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slave Wait
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
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Humanity Race Rights Superior
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
He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Blow Freedom Strike
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Brother Freedom Shame Slave
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

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