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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
One and God make a majority.
The ballot is the only safety.
Oppression makes a wise man mad.
Let us render the tyrant no aid.
Liberty for all; chains for none.
Our destiny is largely in our hands.
I hear the mournful wail of millions!
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.
That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
The opposite of compromise is character.
Once you read, you will be free forever.
Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.
What is possible for me is possible for you.
If there's no struggle, there's no progress.
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.
I had as well be killed running as die standing
The greatest sacrifice is the sacrifice of time.
He who would be free must strike the first blow.
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
Time is but a thought, a means of measurement, not a reality.
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.
If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.
Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.
I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.
This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.
They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
