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Abolitionist Inspirational Quotes (2146)

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We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition.
Henry David Thoreau
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
Susan B. Anthony
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It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.
Henry David Thoreau
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The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
Henry David Thoreau
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A man sits as many risks as he runs.
Henry David Thoreau
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A man can suffocate on courtesy.
Henry David Thoreau
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Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
Frederick Douglass
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.
Henry David Thoreau
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
Henry David Thoreau
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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David Thoreau
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It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
Thomas Clarkson
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The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.
Henry David Thoreau
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No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.
Henry David Thoreau
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
Susan B. Anthony
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
Frederick Douglass
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There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.
Henry David Thoreau
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I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.
Henry David Thoreau
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Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,--the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.
Henry David Thoreau
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Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn.
Henry David Thoreau
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Harriet Tubman
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If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.
Henry David Thoreau
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You don't know your testament when you see it.
Henry David Thoreau
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