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Without Struggle There Is No Success
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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Talbot County
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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
Frederick Augustus Washington Baly
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Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.
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We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
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From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.
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I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.
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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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Let us render the tyrant no aid.
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In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can't expect that you're going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.
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As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate.
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I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
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In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.
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I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.
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I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
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Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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