People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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