“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
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“The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.”
― Up from Slavery: an autobiography
― Up from Slavery: an autobiography
“Give me liberty or give me death."
[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]”
― Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]”
― Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
“For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“When I was teaching children I began every day writing this on the blackboard: "Do to others what you would like them to do to you", telling them how much better the world would be if everybody lived by this rule.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
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