If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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