It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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 man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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 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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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