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Frederick Douglass Quote - The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

Frederick Douglass

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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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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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One and God make a majority.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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 white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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