Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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 is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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One and God make a majority.
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