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Abolitionist Inspirational Quotes (2143)

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I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.
Frederick Douglass
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Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.
Henry David Thoreau
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We fritter away our energy and creativity . . . we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.
Henry David Thoreau
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Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.
Henry David Thoreau
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He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.
Henry David Thoreau
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
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Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
Henry David Thoreau
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I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!
Henry David Thoreau
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The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do and yet how much is not done by us!
Henry David Thoreau
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I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
Henry David Thoreau
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All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
Henry David Thoreau
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A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!
Henry David Thoreau
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Hate can pardon more than love.
Henry David Thoreau
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Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
Frederick Douglass
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What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
Henry David Thoreau
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The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.
Hannah More
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While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.
Henry David Thoreau
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Music never stops it is only the listening that is intermittent.
Henry David Thoreau
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How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden all world-ridden.
Henry David Thoreau
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Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.
Henry David Thoreau
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Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness-this is marriage and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.
Sojourner Truth
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A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Henry David Thoreau
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
Susan B. Anthony
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