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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Frederick Douglass

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
Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Chain Freedom Independence
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
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Blow Freedom Strike
Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Equality Intelligence Level One Liner
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
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Black Freedom Party Progress Republic
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
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
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Future Inspirational Let Go Past Present
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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One Liner Slave
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
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
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
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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