"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work."
-Frederick Douglass
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"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
-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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"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."
-Frederick Douglass
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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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"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
-Leo Tolstoy
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
-Margaret Mead
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"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."
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"I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me."
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"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."
-Lord Acton
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