We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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One and God make a majority.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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