Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhere justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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