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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.

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• ‟ The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

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• ‟ A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

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• ‟ The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

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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.

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• ‟ A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

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• ‟ I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

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• ‟ There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

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• ‟ I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

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