Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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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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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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