Power concedes nothing without a demand, It never did and it never will.

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"Human rights stand upon a common basis; and by all reason that they are supported, maintained, and defended for all the human family. The essential characteristics of humanity are everywhere the same."

- Frederick Douglass

Belief

"Without this dream, there would be no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Hope

"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."

- Frederick Douglass

Integrity

"“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.”"

- Frederick Douglass

Integrity

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence."

- Frederick Douglass

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"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

Courage

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

Courage

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

Courage

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Courage

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

Courage