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Frederick Douglass Quote - What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Frederick Douglass

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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Beautiful Deep Place Proper Time Truth
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Character Color Man
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Discourage Encounter Future Hope Prediction Resistance
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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One Liner Slave
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Dangerous Indeed Knowledge Learning People Slave
A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Man One Liner Work
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Black Lives Matter Justice Pity Sympathy
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Exertion Important Inspirational Opportunity
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Constitution Document Glorious Liberty
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Freedom Roads Seldom Travel
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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Array Character Community Cover Destiny Glory Majestic Shame Share
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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Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy
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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Country Greatness Heart Man Patience Strong Sympathy
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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Education Freedom Glorious Liberty Man Truth Uplift
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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Hard Time Moral Physical Struggle
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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Injustice Measure People Quiet Wrong
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Book Forever Freedom Learning One Liner Reading
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Endurance Limitation Prescribe
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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Darkness Mental Moral Necessary Possible Power Reason Slave Vision
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Black Black Lives Matter Happiness Man Purchase White
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Justice One Liner Poor Rule
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Box Man Rights
Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Equality Intelligence Level One Liner
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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Attention Men Practical Theory Thinking Value Worth
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Amount Hand Man Time
A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Brotherhood Confusion Joy Man National Smile Sorrow Tears Tongue

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