Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOpportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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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 mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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