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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.

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
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
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
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
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Black Lives Matter Justice Pity Sympathy
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
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
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Country District Government People
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Book Forever Freedom Learning One Liner Reading
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Gentleman Insult Man
It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Family Team Work Togetherness Unite
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Business Demand Market Politics Power
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
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Blood Man Safety Slave
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
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slave Wait

The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.

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