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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOne and God make a majority.
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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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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