Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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