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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

Frederick Douglass

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Business Demand Market Politics Power
Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Ability Application Consistency Done Greatness Man Need Power Proper
I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Credit Master Respect Teacher
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 DOUGLASS

Injustice Measure People Quiet Wrong
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?
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Country Earth People Politics World
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

God Majority One Liner
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Carve Circumstance Man Work
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Inspirational Right Unite Wrong
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Black Freedom Party Progress Republic
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Education Freedom Glorious Liberty Man Truth Uplift
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Brother Freedom Shame Slave
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Endurance Limitation Prescribe
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Answer Freedom Legs Prayer Receive
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Black Lives Matter Justice Pity Sympathy
Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Ourselves People Respect

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