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?
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is 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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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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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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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