If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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 simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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