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Quote by Frederick Douglass
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. - Frederick Douglas

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass

Other quotes by Frederick Douglass

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

Category:
Self-Respect
Author
Frederick Douglass
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – Frederick Douglass

Category:
Oppression
Author
Frederick Douglass
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Other Quotes from
Black History
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The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise. – African Proverb

Category:
Black History

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise. – Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise," And Still I Rise

Category:
Black History

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: “The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.” – Martin Luther King,Jr.

Category:
Black History

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. – Maya Angelou

Category:
Black History

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Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. – Harry S. Truman

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Education

I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that youve made a billion dollars, youve probably become uncool. – Sean Parker

Category:
cool

When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress becomes manageable. – Greg Anderson

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Action

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. – Danny Kaye

Category:
Life