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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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