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 DOUGLASSIt 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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