If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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