You have to take power. No one gives it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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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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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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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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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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