Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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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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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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