It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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 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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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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