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Frederick Douglass
A little learning,...
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any...
A man's character...
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about...
Power concedes nothing...
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will . . .
Slaves were expected...
Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or...
A gentleman will...
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Source:...
Find out just...
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which...
Man's greatness consists...
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be...
Those who profess...
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want rain without thunder and...
Be not discouraged....
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . . . Only as we...
I prefer to...
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to...
We have to...
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Truth is proper...
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
Source: In Famous...
We had talked...
We had talked long enough; we were now ready to move; if not now, we never should be; and if we did not intend to move...
[W]henever my condition...
[W]henever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be...
Power concedes nothing...
Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices...
Where justice is...
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel...
The mind does...
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin....
Source: In Famous Black...
We are one,...
We are one, our cause is one, and we must help each other; if we are to succeed.
Men may not...
Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they...
If there is...
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom yet depreciate agitation, are men...
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