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 DOUGLASSA man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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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 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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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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