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Abolitionist Inspirational Quotes (2146)

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A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.
Henry David Thoreau
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The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.
Henry David Thoreau
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Read not the Times, read the Eternities.
Henry David Thoreau
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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau
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When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau
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In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
Henry David Thoreau
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Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul.
Henry David Thoreau
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If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought for our words are few and our deeds none at all.
Hannah More
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The last great struggle for our rights the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us.
William Wells Brown
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I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
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... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government.
Susan B. Anthony
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Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
Ernestine Rose
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As a man thinks of himself, so he is.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
Susan B. Anthony
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Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?
Henry David Thoreau
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In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.
Maria Weston Chapman
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But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of a physician who shall minister to both soul and body at once, that is, to man. Now he falls between two stools.
Henry David Thoreau
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
Susan B. Anthony
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The improved means to the unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau
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Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.
Henry David Thoreau
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My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
Henry David Thoreau
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Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
Henry David Thoreau
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