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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass 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.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass 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.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass A man is worked on by what he works on.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass 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 DouglassFrederick Douglass If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass 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.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass
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