Without a struggle, there can be 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 struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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 simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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One and God make a majority.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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