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341 Orator Quotes

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Hazard Ridicule Incur Abhorrence
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Small, opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Small Opportunities Great Enterprises
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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.

Any Class Conspiracy Degrade
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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.

Earthquake Fire Gentle Light
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Certainly Get Might Must
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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Honest Life Nation Only
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Broken Build Children Easier
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One and God make a majority.

God Majority Make One
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Endurance Limits Oppress Prescribed
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Progress No Struggle There
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Degrade That Can Man
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Answer Legs Prayed Received
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

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

Any Calamity Dangerous Dangerous Thing
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Causes Rebellion Than Thing
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Appreciate Appreciated Battle Easily
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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

Advantage Being First First One
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I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Found Know Out Slave
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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Ability Application Consists Done
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
About Ankle Chain End
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Expected Generally Sing Slaves
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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Black Cannot Happiness Man
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Future Make Only Past
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I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

Across Bay Born Could
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Agitation Crops Favor Freedom
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There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

Beneath Does Heaven Him
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That which is inhuman cannot be divine.

Cannot Divine Inhuman Which
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Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.

Crushing Down Effects Experience
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As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

Cracked Foolish Known Men
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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

God Image Justice Love
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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Done Good Remind Reproach
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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Actions Conduct Man Mean
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Dictator Enemy Freedom Law
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Alliance Close Despot Free
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Anxiety Avoid Beware Lest
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Accompanied Action Empty Speech
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Excessive Free Good Security
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
Believe Best Everything Necessarily
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

Advantage Against Democracy Despot
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Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

Abroad Africa African Home
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The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

Badge Black Glorious Greatness
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The whole world is run on bluff.
Bluff Run Whole World
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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Culture History Knowledge Like Origin
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A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Exact Man Reading Ready
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Chance Hope Never People
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I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Africa Back Black Blacks
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I like honesty and fair play.

Honesty Play
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I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

American Anglo-Saxon As Far As Better
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Confidence Defeated Life Race
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Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

Look Me Storm Whirlwind
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