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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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