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Abolitionist Inspirational Quotes (2146)

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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
Henry David Thoreau
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution
Frederick Douglass
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
Frederick Douglass
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Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.
Henry David Thoreau
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Hear! hear! screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.
Henry David Thoreau
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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
Sojourner Truth
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Those who work much do not work hard.
Henry David Thoreau
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David Thoreau
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We may draw good out of evil we must not do evil, that good may come.
Maria Weston Chapman
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The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.
Henry David Thoreau
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The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.
Henry David Thoreau
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Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.
Henry David Thoreau
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A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
Henry David Thoreau
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
Henry David Thoreau
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We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not.
Henry David Thoreau
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Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children He chastens them in love He never inflicts a stroke He could safely spare He inflicts it to purify as well as to punish, to caution as well as to cure, to improve as well as to chastise.
Hannah More
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The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.
Henry David Thoreau
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Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.
Henry David Thoreau
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Yes, thou art ever present, power divine not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee.
Hannah More
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Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.
Henry David Thoreau
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Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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All fables, indeed, have their morals but the innocent enjoy the story.
Henry David Thoreau
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