A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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