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" Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. "
Frederick Douglass
Never
Power
Will
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" The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. "
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" When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. "
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" Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. "
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" Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. "
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" There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him. "
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Man
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" We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. "
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" The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. "
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" I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. "
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" What to the Slave is the 4th of July. "
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" 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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Than
True
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" Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. "
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Greatness
Man
" A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. "
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Man
Him
" 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
You
People
" A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. "
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Dangerous
People
May
" 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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Wrong
Free
Double
" Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. "
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Work
Expected
Well
" A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. "
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Reflection
Lost
Battle
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Struggle
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" People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. "
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Get
Might
World
" I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. "
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Man
Anchor
Party
" It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. "
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Broken
Children
Men
" The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. "
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Limits
Those
Tyrants
" I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. "
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Shore
Free
Look
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Light
Nature
Fire
" The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. "
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Truthful
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" Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. "
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Society
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God
Majority
" Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. "
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Doing
Beginning
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