You have to take power. No one gives it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOnce you learn to read, you will be forever free.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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