Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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Where 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.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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 gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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