It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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.Frederick Douglass
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass
Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get.
Frederick Douglass
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death
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A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
Frederick Douglass
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