Liberty for all; chains for none.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEvery one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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