"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
-Frederick Douglass
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"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.“
-Frederick Douglass
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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."
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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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"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."
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"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."
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"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."
-David Herbert Lawrence
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