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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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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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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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