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 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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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 ballot is the only safety.
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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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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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