Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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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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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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One and God make a majority.
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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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