Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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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