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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTruth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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