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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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