Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe opposite of compromise is character.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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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 simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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