Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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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 thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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