If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSAt a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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