Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThose who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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One and God make a majority.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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A 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.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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