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Frederick Douglass Quote - You have to take power. No one gives it.

You have to take power. No one gives it.

Frederick Douglass

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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Bright Hope Morning One Liner Positive
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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Broken Broken Heart Build Children Deep Men Repair Strong
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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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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Dangerous Indeed Knowledge Learning People Slave
Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Air Earth Existence Nature Perfection She Spiritual Women Power
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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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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Darkness Mental Moral Necessary Possible Power Reason Slave Vision
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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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