It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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