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