It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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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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