We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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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 man is worked on by what he works on.
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