Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOne and God make a majority.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS







