There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPeople might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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