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Up Quotes by Frederick Douglass
- The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
- There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own…
- One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go to…
- No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I…
- These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to…
- Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons…
- Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without…
- Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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