The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWithout a struggle, there can be no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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