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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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