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Frederick Douglass Quote - At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

Frederick Douglass

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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Black Black Lives Matter Happiness Man Purchase White
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Dangerous Indeed Knowledge Learning People Slave
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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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False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Encouragement Motivational One Liner Possible
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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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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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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Advocate Cause Humanity Justice Man
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Expectation Justice Sing Slave Work
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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