- Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. - Frederick Douglass, 1857
- Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. - Frederick Douglass, 1857
- When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. - Frederick Douglass, 1892
- A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. - Frederick Douglass, 1894
- I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore, when he beats his bars and he would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, but a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core. - Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sympathy
- A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in, a minute to smile and an hour to weep in, a pint of joy to a peck of troubles and never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life. - Paul Laurence Dunbar, Life
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