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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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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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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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