Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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