Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTo suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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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.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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