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.

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• Frederick Douglass:

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

• Frederick Douglass:

  If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

• Frederick Douglass:

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

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• Frederick Douglass:

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• Frederick Douglass:

  Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushin