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Frederick Douglass Quote - Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Frederick Douglass

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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
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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Circumstance Coward Fortune Happy Life Opportunity Vigorous Wise
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Inspirational One Liner Progress Struggle
He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Blow Freedom Strike
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Claim Freedom Men Politics Respect Rights Women Women Rights
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Honesty Life Nation Secure Truth
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
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Black Black Lives Matter Happiness Man Purchase White
Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Chain Freedom Independence
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Bright Hope Morning One Liner Positive
The opposite of compromise is character.
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Character Compromise One Liner Opposite
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Beautiful Deep Place Proper Time Truth
Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Appearance Disappear Forever Freedom
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Business Inspirational Progress Struggle
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
What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Encouragement Motivational One Liner Possible
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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Against Conscience God Majority Man Universe
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Rights Speech Suppress Violation Wrong
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Dangerous Indeed Knowledge Learning People Slave
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Blood Man Safety Slave
Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Answer Freedom Legs Prayer Receive
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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Expenditure Food House Immense Please Taste Wealth
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Book Reading Slave
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Black Lives Matter Constitution Country Honor People Problem
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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Hard Time Moral Physical Struggle
The 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.
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Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave

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