If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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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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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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One and God make a majority.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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