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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty for all; chains for none.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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 I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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