Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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