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 DOUGLASSI had as well be killed running as die standing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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One and God make a majority.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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 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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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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