Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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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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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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