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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSlaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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One and God make a majority.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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