Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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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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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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