The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThose who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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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 little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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