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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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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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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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