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.
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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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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