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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOppression makes a wise man mad.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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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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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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One and God make a majority.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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