Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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One and God make a majority.
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