Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you.... The resistance encountered now predicates hope.... Only as we rise ... do we encounter opposition.Frederick Douglass
Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.
Frederick Douglass
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death
Frederick Douglass
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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