It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSHe who would be free must strike the first blow.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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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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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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