If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPraying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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