The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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