Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEvery one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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.
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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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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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One and God make a majority.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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