The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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