Posters
Wallpaper

black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

You have to take power. No one gives it.

Frederick Douglass

Related Topics

Giving Inspirational One Liner Power

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Honesty Life Nation Secure Truth
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Fellow Finding Man Neck Philosophy
I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Credit Master Respect Teacher
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Finding Slave Want
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Country District Government People
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Box Man Rights
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Blood Man Safety Slave
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Ballot Box Daughter Education Knowledge School Son
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Broken Broken Heart Build Children Deep Men Repair Strong
The ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Ballot One Liner Safety
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Cause Rebel Worse
What is possible for me is possible for you.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Encouragement Motivational One Liner Possible
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Discourage Encounter Future Hope Prediction Resistance
A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Carve Circumstance Man Work
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Exertion Important Inspirational Opportunity
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Certain People Work World
One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

God Majority One Liner
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Black Lives Matter Constitution Country Honor People Problem
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Against Conscience God Majority Man Universe
My hopes were never brighter than now.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Bright Hope Morning One Liner Positive
We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Motivational Success Words Work
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Circumstance Coward Fortune Happy Life Opportunity Vigorous Wise
Oppression makes a wise man mad.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Mad Man One Liner Oppression Wise
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?
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Country Earth People Politics World
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Black Lives Matter Color Equality Mind Skin
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

One Liner Slave

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes