"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
-Frederick Douglass
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"America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.“
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"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work."
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"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
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"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
-Frederick Douglass
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"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."
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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."
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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
-Jim Rohn
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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