The opposite of compromise is character.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEducate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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A 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.
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