"The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America."
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"Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever... I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm."
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"A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing."
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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
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"I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death."
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"Our destiny is largely in our hands."
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"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me."
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"Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place."
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"A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people."
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"The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK."
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"I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall."
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"America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future."
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"A government, founded on impartial liberty, where all have a voice and a vote, irrespective of color or of sex--what is there to hinder such a government from standing firm."
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"One and God make a majority."
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"Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere"
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"The mind does not take its complexion from the skin."
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"Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren."
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"The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State."
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"We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them."
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"The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe."
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