You have to take power. No one gives it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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One and God make a majority.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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 am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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