American - Author | February 14, 1818 - February 20, 1895
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
ChildrenParentingMenBrokenStrong
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
ChangeStruggleProgress
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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It 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.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
MyselfBe TrueTrueMy OwnOthers
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
ReligionLegsYearsAnswerTwenty
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
StrengthSoulManMeWithinDegrade
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
FreeSpeechWrongRightsDouble
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
PowerNothingWillNeverWithout
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