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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

Frederick Douglass

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
The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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Claim Earn History Human Liberty Progress Show
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Brother Freedom Shame Slave
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Rights Speech Suppress Violation Wrong
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Black Lives Matter Color Equality Mind Skin
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
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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One Liner Slave
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
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Argument Convince Iron Need Time
He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Blow Freedom Strike
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
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Exertion Important Inspirational Opportunity
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
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
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 slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slave Wait

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