Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
From Frederick Douglass
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
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