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Frederick Douglass Quote - If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

Frederick Douglass

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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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