Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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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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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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