Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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