People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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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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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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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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