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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.

Frederick Douglass

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
Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Chain Freedom Independence
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
You have to take power. No one gives it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Giving Inspirational One Liner Power
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
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Black Lives Matter Color Equality Mind Skin
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 slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slave Wait
Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Equality Intelligence Level One Liner
Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Appearance Disappear Forever Freedom
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
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
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
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
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Gentleman Insult Man
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

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