One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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 had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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