A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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