Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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 opposite of compromise is character.
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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.
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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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