The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSlaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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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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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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