You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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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.
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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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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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 is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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