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Frederick Douglass Quote - The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.

The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.

Frederick Douglass

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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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Class Force Ignorance Justice Poverty Prevail Property Safe Society
The ballot is the only safety.
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Ballot One Liner Safety
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Chain Freedom Independence
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Endurance Limitation Prescribe
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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Injustice Measure People Quiet Wrong
I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Credit Master Respect Teacher
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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Ability Application Consistency Done Greatness Man Need Power Proper
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Degrade Man One Liner Soul
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
Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Ballot Box Daughter Education Knowledge School Son
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Business Demand Market Politics Power
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Inspirational Knowledge Man One Liner Slave
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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One Liner Slave
Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Answer Freedom Legs Prayer Receive
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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False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Book Reading Slave
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.
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Earthquake Fire Gentle Inspirational Light Shower Storm
My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Bright Hope Morning One Liner Positive
Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Air Earth Existence Nature Perfection She Spiritual Women Power
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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Attention Men Practical Theory Thinking Value Worth
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Argument Convince Iron Need Time
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Certain People Work World
One and God make a majority.
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God Majority One Liner
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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Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Book Forever Freedom Learning One Liner Reading
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

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