People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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