Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSBe not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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