The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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 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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