Category: social reformer
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
Henry Ward Beecher
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them – the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Frederick Douglass
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass
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The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
Henry Ward Beecher
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
Frederick Douglass
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass
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Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.
Henry Ward Beecher