Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWithout a struggle, there can be no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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 didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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 smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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 thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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