Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSAt a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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