If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNo man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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?
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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