It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty for all; chains for none.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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