The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe opposite of compromise is character.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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