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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

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.

Convincing
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Nov 07, 2020

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

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

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Happiness
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Nov 07, 2020

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

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

That which is inhuman cannot be divine.

Down
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Nov 07, 2020

Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.

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