The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIf I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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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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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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