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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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