He who would be free must strike the first blow.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhere justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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One and God make a majority.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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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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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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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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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