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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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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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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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