My hopes were never brighter than now.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe opposite of compromise is character.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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What 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?
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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