The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFortune 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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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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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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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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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?
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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