The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt 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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSBe not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOur destiny is largely in our hands.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPeople might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man is worked on by what he works on.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSAt a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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