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 DOUGLASSOne and God make a majority.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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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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 seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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