Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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 silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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