The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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I 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.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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