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 DOUGLASSThe silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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 mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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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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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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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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