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Frederick Douglass Quotes

"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."

"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."

"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."

"One and God make a majority."

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
Religion

"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."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning."

"When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind."

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

"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."

"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."
Nature

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."

"A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people."

"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."

"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."

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