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Abolitionist Inspirational Quotes (2144)

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Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.
Henry David Thoreau
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Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.
Henry David Thoreau
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Every man casts a shadow not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau
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I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.
Henry David Thoreau
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I love the broad margin to my life.
Henry David Thoreau
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Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.
Henry David Thoreau
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
Frederick Douglass
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It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
Lucretia Mott
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There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!
Henry David Thoreau
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I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.
Sojourner Truth
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass
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I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.
Henry David Thoreau
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When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.
William Wells Brown
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Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years
John Newton
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There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.
Henry David Thoreau
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Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.
William Wilberforce
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I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.
Henry David Thoreau
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There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.
William Wilberforce
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We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
Thomas Clarkson
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A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
Henry David Thoreau
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When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
Henry David Thoreau
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
Hannah More
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He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.
Henry David Thoreau
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