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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Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
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One and God make a majority.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters . . .
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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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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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