You have to take power. No one gives it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPeople might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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One and God make a majority.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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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.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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