If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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