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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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