| Quotes |
Topic |
| Advice | Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. |
| Agitation | Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. |
| Calamity | A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. |
| Contentment | Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. |
| Learning | A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. |
| Men and Women | A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. |
| Government | Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. |
| Psychological Subjects | A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him. |
| Psychological Subjects | Power concedes nothing without a demand. |
| Racism | The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. |
| Society | Without a struggle, there can be no progress. |
| Society | If there is no struggle there is no progress. |
| Society | Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest. |
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