Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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