We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.Frederick Douglass
In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.
Frederick Douglass
Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get.
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.
Frederick Douglass
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters . . .
Frederick Douglass
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
Frederick Douglass
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