I had as well be killed running as die standing.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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