I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have to take power. No one gives it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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 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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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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