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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOur community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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