It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTruth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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 marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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