Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSBe not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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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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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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