I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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 man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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