He who would be free must strike the first blow.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have to take power. No one gives it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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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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