You have to take power. No one gives it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The ballot is the only safety.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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