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Abolitionist Inspirational Quotes (2143)

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The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.
Henry David Thoreau
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I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.
Frederick Douglass
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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
Lucy Stone
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... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.
Susan B. Anthony
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... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
Frederick Douglass
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. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
Henry David Thoreau
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If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too.
Henry David Thoreau
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Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?
Henry David Thoreau
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The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.
Henry David Thoreau
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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.
Henry David Thoreau
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I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain faults which press too near our self-love to be even perceptible to us.
Hannah More
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If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
Henry David Thoreau
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We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.
Henry David Thoreau
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Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.
Henry David Thoreau
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Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.
Frederick Douglass
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There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.
Henry David Thoreau
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
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Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
Henry David Thoreau
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther or nearer in the woods, and if near a lake, the semihuman cry of the loons at their unearthly revels.
Henry David Thoreau
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Eastward I go only by force but westward I go free.
Henry David Thoreau
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