The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPraying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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