Quote by Frederick Douglass
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignoranc

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – Frederick Douglass

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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. – 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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When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today, because my right is justice. If you are stronger, you have to help the weaker boy or girl both in play and in the work. – Sarojini Naidu

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They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies. – G. K. Chesterton

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Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesnt stand on the doorstep with toothbrush moustache and swastika armband — it creeps up insidiously… step by step, and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that it is gone. – Baron Lane

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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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