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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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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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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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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 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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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