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

Frederick Douglass

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Black Black Lives Matter Happiness Man Purchase White
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
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
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Book Reading Slave
Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Chain Freedom Independence
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Man Slave Time
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Character Color Man
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
Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Circumstance Coward Fortune Happy Life Opportunity Vigorous Wise
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
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
Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Finding Hard Time Slave
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Inspirational Right Unite Wrong
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Certain People Work World
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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