At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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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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