If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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 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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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