What is possible for me is possible for you.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSHe who would be free must strike the first blow.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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 opposite of compromise is character.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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