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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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 mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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