Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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 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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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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 would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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