Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTo make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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