The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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 prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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