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• You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
• They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.
• We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim…
• If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a…
• Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we…
• A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
• E have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor…
• I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

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