Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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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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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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One and God make a majority.
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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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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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