At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSImmense 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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