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Frederick Douglass Quotes

Frederick Douglass quotes about power

American Author February 14, 1817 – February 20, 1895

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[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence. 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 did and it never will. Frederick Douglass
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that 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. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must... Frederick Douglass
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow...I urge you to fly to arms and smite to death the power that would bury the Government and your liberty in the same hopeless grave. This is your golden opportunity. Frederick Douglass
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. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass quote: "Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper..."
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass quote: "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it..."
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass quote: "Power concedes nothing without a demand."
Power concedes nothing without a demand. Frederick Douglass

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