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Frederick Douglass Quote - Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Frederick Douglass

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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Black Lives Matter Color Equality Mind Skin
The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Against Conscience God Majority Man Universe
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Black Lives Matter Justice Pity Sympathy
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Expectation Justice Sing Slave Work
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Argument Convince Iron Need Time
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Attention Men Practical Theory Thinking Value Worth
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Advocate Cause Humanity Justice Man
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Finding Slave Want
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Exertion Important Inspirational Opportunity
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Carve Circumstance Man Work
Oppression makes a wise man mad.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Mad Man One Liner Oppression Wise
What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Country Earth People Politics World
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Business Demand Market Politics Power
He who would be free must strike the first blow.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Blow Freedom Strike
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Country Greatness Heart Man Patience Strong Sympathy
It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Family Team Work Togetherness Unite
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Box Man Rights
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Brother Freedom Shame Slave
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Expenditure Food House Immense Please Taste Wealth
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Cause Rebel Worse
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Amount Hand Man Time
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Crop Favor Freedom Ground Men Philosophy
One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

God Majority One Liner
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Humanity Race Rights Superior
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Cease Existence Liberty Meaning Opinion Right
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Endurance Limitation Prescribe

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