Classic Quotes by Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American Abolitionist little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.
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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.
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One and God make a majority.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
ELLY..Elisi Eli
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