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.
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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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One and God make a majority.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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