Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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One and God make a majority.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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