Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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