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Abolitionist Inspirational Quotes (2143)

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...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!
Henry David Thoreau
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If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.
Hannah More
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If you give money, spend yourself with it.
Henry David Thoreau
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
Frederick Douglass
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All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.
Henry David Thoreau
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All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.
Henry David Thoreau
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Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.
Henry David Thoreau
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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
Henry David Thoreau
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Some creatures are made to see in the dark.
Henry David Thoreau
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Any thing that proves that it is not in the power of Kings and Princes by their great armies to have every thing their own way is of such good example that without any good will to the French one can not help being delighted by it, and you know I have a natural partiality to what some people call rebels.
Charles James Fox
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David Thoreau
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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
Henry David Thoreau
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If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
Harriet Tubman
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Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
Henry David Thoreau
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Be not merely good. Be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
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Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.
Frederick Douglass
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So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.
Henry David Thoreau
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All men recognize the right of revolution that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
Henry David Thoreau
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Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Henry David Thoreau
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There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil but inactivity cannot be led to good.
Hannah More
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Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
Sojourner Truth
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Henry David Thoreau
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