Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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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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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 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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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