Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man is worked on by what he works on.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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 didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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