Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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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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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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