I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSlaves 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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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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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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