Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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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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