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- For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and…
- We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
- If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
- Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim,…
- A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
- They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on…
- I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that…
- Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light…
- No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in…
- A war undertaken and brazenly carried for the perpetual enslavement of the colored men, calls logically and loudly for the colored men to help suppress…
- Self-Made Men are those who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, or friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education;…
- I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
- The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
- Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on…
- Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the…
- Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine
- Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments…
- Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark…
- You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
- ...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets,…
- There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real soldiers, having muskets…
- Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but…
- E have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for…
- The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant rush from the…
- American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle