Category: social reformer
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I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man’s political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Frederick Douglass
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher
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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
Frederick Douglass
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass
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Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.
Frederick Douglass