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?
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThere 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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