The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe opposite of compromise is character.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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.
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