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Frederick Douglass: “It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Frederick Douglass: “The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Frederick Douglass: “It was deemed a disgrace not to get drunk at Christmas; and he was regarded as lazy indeed, who had not provided himself with the necessary means, during the year, to get whisky enough to last him through Christmas.
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Frederick Douglass: “People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Frederick Douglass: “I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
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Frederick Douglass: “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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Frederick Douglass: “Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
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Frederick Douglass: “People are asking me about the race problem.... I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem -- whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution.
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Frederick Douglass: “The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Frederick Douglass: “The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!
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Frederick Douglass: “I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Frederick Douglass: “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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Frederick Douglass: “Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. 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. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.
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Frederick Douglass: “Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
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Frederick Douglass: “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Frederick Douglass: “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.
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