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Abolitionist Inspirational Quotes (2143)

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New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.
Henry David Thoreau
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People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of being, but possesses no power to qualify us for that state. In conveying us to a new world it does not give us a new heart.
Hannah More
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I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom and soI am content to live.
Henry David Thoreau
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We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
Henry David Thoreau
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I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light.
Henry David Thoreau
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The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.
Henry David Thoreau
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.
Henry David Thoreau
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I started with this idea in my head, There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty.
Harriet Tubman
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The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
Henry David Thoreau
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Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives.
Henry David Thoreau
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All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Henry David Thoreau
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Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken, the cruelty and outrage to the victims, but because of the prejudice it fosters.
William Wells Brown
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I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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.
Frederick Douglass
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Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?
William Wilberforce
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Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly nor do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher's desk.
Henry David Thoreau
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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
Susan B. Anthony
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The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.
Henry David Thoreau
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The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them they are their true clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
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How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!
Henry David Thoreau
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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People seldom hit what they do not aim at.
Henry David Thoreau
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere
Frederick Douglass
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