The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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 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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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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One and God make a majority.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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