Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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 gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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