Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPoverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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 mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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