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Abolitionist Inspirational Quotes (2146)

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau
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Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.
Henry David Thoreau
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Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
Henry David Thoreau
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
Susan B. Anthony
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Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
Henry David Thoreau
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We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
Henry David Thoreau
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass
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Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.
Hannah More
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How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David Thoreau
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I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.
Henry David Thoreau
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So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary for what's the hurry?
Henry David Thoreau
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It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.
Hannah More
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Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today they cannot choose.
Susan B. Anthony
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Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.
Henry David Thoreau
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If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.
Hannah More
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
Susan B. Anthony
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Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
Henry David Thoreau
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Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.
Henry David Thoreau
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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
Henry David Thoreau
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One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
Henry David Thoreau
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Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.
William Wilberforce
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No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to answer the question, whether the mass of men, as we know them, talk as the standard authors and reviewers write, or rather as this man writes, we should say that he alone begins to write their language at all.
Henry David Thoreau
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Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.
Henry David Thoreau
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