The opposite of compromise is character.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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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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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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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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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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