If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPoverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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