You have to take power. No one gives it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFind 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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