If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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