Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIf I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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