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 DOUGLASSNo man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is 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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