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You have to take power. No one gives it.

Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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Talbot County
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Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.
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When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.
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It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.
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I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing
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Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.
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