Our destiny is largely in our hands.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have to take power. No one gives it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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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