What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
More Quotes from Frederick Douglass:
Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get.Frederick Douglass
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
We had talked long enough we were now ready to move if not now, we never should be and if we did not intend to move now, we had as well fold our arms, sit down, and acknowledge ourselves fit only to be slaves.
Frederick Douglass
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters . . .
Frederick Douglass
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you.... The resistance encountered now predicates hope.... Only as we rise ... do we encounter opposition.
Frederick Douglass
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.
Frederick Douglass
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