"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work."
-Frederick Douglass
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"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.“
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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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"It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
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"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
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