I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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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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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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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 simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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