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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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