Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe opposite of compromise is character.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Immense 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.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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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.
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One and God make a majority.
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