Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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