The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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 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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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