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Abolitionist Inspirational Quotes (2146)

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Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
Harriet Tubman
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There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.
Henry David Thoreau
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Resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
Henry David Thoreau
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Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
Henry David Thoreau
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If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are day owls, and there arenight owls, and each is beautiful and even musical while about its business.
Henry David Thoreau
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No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns their due rank respectively to Action and Contemplation, or rather does full justice to the latter. Western philosophers have not conceived of the significance of Contemplation in their sense.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.
Henry David Thoreau
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Birds never sing in caves.
Henry David Thoreau
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The tavern will compare favorably with the church.
Henry David Thoreau
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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
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Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.
Henry David Thoreau
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The researcher is more memorable than the researched.
Henry David Thoreau
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I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.
Henry David Thoreau
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You [men] are our protectors, is not true for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?
Mary Edwards Walker
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I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should be free, and see his family and friends once more.
Harriet Tubman
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
Susan B. Anthony
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Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
Henry David Thoreau
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Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
Henry David Thoreau
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Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.
Henry David Thoreau
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There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.
Henry David Thoreau
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There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.
Henry David Thoreau
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Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.
Henry David Thoreau
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For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself
Henry David Thoreau
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