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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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