A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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.
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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.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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