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" What to the Slave is the 4th of July. "
Frederick Douglass
Slave
July
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" One and God make a majority. "
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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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" The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. "
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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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" That which is inhuman cannot be divine. "
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" A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. "
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" 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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" 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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" It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. "
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Children
Men
" Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. "
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Power
Will
" When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. "
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Men
" 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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Man
Without
" At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. "
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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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Without
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Struggle
Change
" Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. "
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" A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. "
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