- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
- Majority
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- Nov 07, 2020
One and God make a majority.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
- Nov 07, 2020
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
- Depreciate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
- Colored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
- Fastened
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
- Divine
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- Nov 07, 2020