Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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It 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.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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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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