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- I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as the burning sun.…
- 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…
- If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by…
- This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must…
- I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed,…
- I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get…
- Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you…
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