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“I’ve always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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J. R. R. Tolkien Quote: “I’ve always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”

“I’ve always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien Quote: “I’ve always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”

J. R. R. Tolkien Quote: “I’ve always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”

J. R. R. Tolkien Quote: “I’ve always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”

J. R. R. Tolkien Quote: “I’ve always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”

J. R. R. Tolkien Quote: “I’ve always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”

J. R. R. Tolkien Quote: “I’ve always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”

J. R. R. Tolkien Quote: “I’ve always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”

J. R. R. Tolkien Quote: “I’ve always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”

J. R. R. Tolkien Quote: “I’ve always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”

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1. “Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Frederick Douglass

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3. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

— Frederick Douglass

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4. “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”

— Frederick Douglass

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5. “You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.”

— Frederick Douglass

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6. “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.”

— Frederick Douglass

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7. “Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.”

— Frederick Douglass

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8. “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

— Frederick Douglass

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9. “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.”

— Frederick Douglass

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10. “I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”

— Frederick Douglass

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11. “A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”

— Frederick Douglass

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12. “I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”

— Frederick Douglass

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13. “To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”

— Frederick Douglass

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14. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

— Frederick Douglass

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15. “I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.”

— Frederick Douglass

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16. “A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.”

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Frederick Douglass

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18. “I had as well be killed running as die standing.”

— Frederick Douglass

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19. “The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”

— Frederick Douglass

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20. “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

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21. “People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”

— Frederick Douglass

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22. “No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.”

— Frederick Douglass

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23. “The opposite of compromise is character.”

— Frederick Douglass

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24. “What to the Slave is the 4th of July.”

— Frederick Douglass

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25. “In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can’t expect that you’re going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.”

— Frederick Douglass

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26. “One and God make a majority.”

— Frederick Douglass

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27. “A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.”

— Frederick Douglass

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28. “Our destiny is largely in our hands.”

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Frederick Douglass

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30. “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.”

— Frederick Douglass

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31. “Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.”

— Frederick Douglass

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32. “What is possible for me is possible for you.”

— Frederick Douglass

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33. “Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.”

— Frederick Douglass

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34. “Some know the value of education by having it. I know it’s value by not having it.”

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Frederick Douglass

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36. “I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.”

— Frederick Douglass

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37. “When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.”

— Frederick Douglass

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38. “Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.”

— Frederick Douglass

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39. “No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in his own hands for guarding, protecting, defending and maintaining that liberty.”

— Frederick Douglass

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40. “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.”

— Frederick Douglass

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41. “The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”

— Frederick Douglass

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42. “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Frederick Douglass

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44. “The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.”

— Frederick Douglass

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45. “In life you don’t get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.”

— Frederick Douglass

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46. “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.”

— Frederick Douglass

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47. “A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.”

— Frederick Douglass

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48. “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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49. “Liberty for all; chains for none.”

— Frederick Douglass

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50. “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

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