Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe ballot is the only safety.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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 destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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