Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
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