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Abolitionist Inspirational Quotes (2146)

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I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
Henry David Thoreau
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The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
Henry David Thoreau
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At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.
Henry David Thoreau
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Hannah More
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are be humbly what you aspire to be.
Henry David Thoreau
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Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .
Martin Delany
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I love a life whose plot is simple.
Henry David Thoreau
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But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.
Henry David Thoreau
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There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.
Henry David Thoreau
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Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.
Henry David Thoreau
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If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.
Henry David Thoreau
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Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and none of the glory nothing to mitigate their weary waiting and watching for the loved ones who return no more.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.
Henry David Thoreau
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There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.
Hannah More
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The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.
Henry David Thoreau
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All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with a petty text of Scripture. Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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It is a momentous fact that a man may be good, or he may be bad his life may be true, or it may be false it may be either a shame or a glory to him. The good man builds himself up the bad man destroys himself.
Henry David Thoreau
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He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.
Henry David Thoreau
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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Henry David Thoreau
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The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph.
Henry David Thoreau
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Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
Henry David Thoreau
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We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
Henry David Thoreau
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
Susan B. Anthony
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The fishermen say that the thundering of the pond scares the fishes and prevents their biting.
Henry David Thoreau
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