Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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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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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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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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