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 DOUGLASSPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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 ballot is the only safety.
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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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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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