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Frederick Douglass Quote - The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

Frederick Douglass

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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Endurance Limitation Prescribe
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Amount Hand Man Time
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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Claim Earn History Human Liberty Progress Show
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Box Man Rights
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Gentleman Insult Man
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Discourage Encounter Future Hope Prediction Resistance
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Exertion Important Inspirational Opportunity
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Answer Freedom Legs Prayer Receive
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Climb Diversity Height Judgment Justice Rise
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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Carve Circumstance Man Work
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Fellow Finding Man Neck Philosophy
Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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Education Freedom Glorious Liberty Man Truth Uplift
Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Appearance Disappear Forever Freedom
Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Equality Intelligence Level One Liner
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Justice One Liner Poor Rule
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Inspirational Right Unite Wrong
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Character Color Man
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Black Black Lives Matter Happiness Man Purchase White
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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False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Country Destiny
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Black Lives Matter Justice Pity Sympathy
The opposite of compromise is character.
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Character Compromise One Liner Opposite
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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Black Lives Matter Constitution Country Honor People Problem
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Honesty Life Nation Secure Truth
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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Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy
I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Die Inspirational Kill One Liner Run Stand

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