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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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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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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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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 man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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 ballot is the only safety.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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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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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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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