Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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 white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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One and God make a majority.
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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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