I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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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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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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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