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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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