Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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