It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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 seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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