Posted on 10/20/2021 11:40:48 AM PDT by libertasbella
"One and God make a majority."
"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."
"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."
"Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude."
"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work."
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."
"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed."
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me."
"I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted."
"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
"The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery."
"The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
"You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man."
"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."
"A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well."
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"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning."
"A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it."
"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."
"Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us."
Probably onve in history class, and again in civics. It is one of the greatest speeches ever delivered, brutally honest and, yet, forgiving.
What’s the difference between a slave who kept house for a person down south and say...Arnold Schwartzenhageer’s maid.
Paging Liz Cheney
Excellent, especially as applied to the so-called J6 "coup."
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Agreed
Douglass was an amazing man
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
And the willingness to inflict and suffer casualties.
Pay?
Plenty of people in this world work for room and board.
Those people should have peacefully demonstrated by burning down a large swath of downtown, not stealing Nancy Pelosi’s beer.
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