Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFind 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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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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