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A man is worked on by what he works on.

Frederick Douglass

A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Capacity Enjoyment Exertion Extend Honor Man Woman
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
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 man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Allow Help Man
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
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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Earthquake Fire Gentle Inspirational Light Shower Storm
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
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
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
Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Education Slave Value
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
He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Blow Freedom Strike
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
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Expenditure Food House Immense Please Taste Wealth
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Beautiful Deep Place Proper Time Truth
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Brother Freedom Shame Slave

A man is worked on by what he works on.

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