You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPeople might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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One and God make a majority.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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