A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFind out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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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 great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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