The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWithout a struggle, there can be no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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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 mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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