I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
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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.Frederick Douglass
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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin....
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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