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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.

Frederick Douglass

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Constitution Document Glorious Liberty
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
The ballot is the only safety.
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Ballot One Liner Safety
You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Giving Inspirational One Liner Power
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Black Lives Matter Justice Pity Sympathy
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
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
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Blood Man Safety Slave
What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Country Earth People Politics World
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Climb Diversity Height Judgment Justice Rise
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
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
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Beautiful Deep Place Proper Time Truth
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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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
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

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