"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work."
-Frederick Douglass
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"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
-Frederick Douglass
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"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed."
-Frederick Douglass
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"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
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"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
-Frederick Douglass
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"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
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