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 DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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Fortune 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.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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