Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI had as well be killed running as die standing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Our 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.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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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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