Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat 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?
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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One and God make a majority.
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