We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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