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Frederick Douglass Quote - Oppression makes a wise man mad.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

Frederick Douglass

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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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Class Force Ignorance Justice Poverty Prevail Property Safe Society
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Argument Convince Iron Need Time
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Endurance Limitation Prescribe
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
The ballot is the only safety.
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Ballot One Liner Safety
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Future Inspirational Let Go Past Present
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Exertion Important Inspirational Opportunity
A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Capacity Enjoyment Exertion Extend Honor Man Woman
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Acceptance General Meet Resistance Slow Truth
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
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Color Constitution Country Degard Evil Ignorance People Poverty
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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Fellow Finding Man Neck Philosophy
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Business Demand Market Politics Power
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Justice One Liner Poor Rule
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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Attention Men Practical Theory Thinking Value Worth
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Country District Government People

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