The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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.
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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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