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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Inspirational One Liner Progress Struggle
I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Die Inspirational Kill One Liner Run Stand
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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False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Encouragement Motivational One Liner Possible
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Cause Rebel Worse
The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Allow Help Man
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Character Color Man
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slave Wait
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Justice One Liner Poor Rule
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
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Future Inspirational Let Go Past Present
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Country Greatness Heart Man Patience Strong Sympathy
Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Circumstance Coward Fortune Happy Life Opportunity Vigorous Wise
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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Country District Government People
The opposite of compromise is character.
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Character Compromise One Liner Opposite

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