At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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 limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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