Frederick Douglass

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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

change

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

Frederick Douglass

freedom

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

Frederick Douglass

freedom

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Frederick Douglass

future

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Frederick Douglass

future

One and God make a majority.

Frederick Douglass

god

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 Douglass

great

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Frederick Douglass

happiness

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

Frederick Douglass

learning

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass

men

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