Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe opposite of compromise is character.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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It 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.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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