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Frederick Douglass Quote - You have to take power. No one gives it.

You have to take power. No one gives it.

Frederick Douglass

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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Circumstance Coward Fortune Happy Life Opportunity Vigorous Wise
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave
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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Color Constitution Country Degard Evil Ignorance People Poverty
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Country Greatness Heart Man Patience Strong Sympathy
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Book Reading Slave
I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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Credit Master Respect Teacher
The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Country Destiny
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Rights Speech Suppress Violation Wrong
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Amount Hand Man Time
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Climb Diversity Height Judgment Justice Rise
Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Appearance Disappear Forever Freedom
The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Hard Time Moral Physical Struggle
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Country District Government People
One and God make a majority.
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God Majority One Liner
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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Fellow Finding Man Neck Philosophy
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want

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