If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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