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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One and God make a majority.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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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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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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