Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSAt a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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