The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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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