Frederick Douglass
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“Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.” -Frederick Douglass
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“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.” -Frederick Douglass
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“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” -Frederick Douglass
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“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” -Frederick Douglass
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“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” -Frederick Douglass
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“It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” -Frederick Douglass
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“When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.” -Frederick Douglass
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“A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.” -Frederick Douglass
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“The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.” -Frederick Douglass
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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.” -Frederick Douglass
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“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.” -Frederick Douglass
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“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” -Frederick Douglass
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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” -Frederick Douglass
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