Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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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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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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