I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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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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