If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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 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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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