The opposite of compromise is character.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSAt a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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One and God make a majority.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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 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 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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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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