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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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One and God make a majority.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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