One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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