You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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