The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSImmense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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