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“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”

Frederick Douglass · Religion

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Frederick Douglass

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

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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.

Freedom

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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Work

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It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Nature