If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOne and God make a majority.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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