One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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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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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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