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Abolitionist Inspirational Quotes (2146)

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In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.
Frederick Douglass
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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Sojourner Truth
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Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.
Henry David Thoreau
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If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.
Henry David Thoreau
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the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.
Hannah More
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The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.
Henry David Thoreau
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Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.
Henry David Thoreau
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God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.
John Newton
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The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.
Henry David Thoreau
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No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.
Henry David Thoreau
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I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.
Henry David Thoreau
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An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
Henry David Thoreau
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Henry David Thoreau
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Henry David Thoreau
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To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.
Henry David Thoreau
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Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
Frederick Douglass
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Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.
Henry David Thoreau
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Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am!
Henry David Thoreau
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It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.
Hannah More
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I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.
Charles James Fox
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The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!
Hannah More
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All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
Henry David Thoreau
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Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
Lucretia Mott
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