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.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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.
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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.
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

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