The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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