Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have to take power. No one gives it.
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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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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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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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