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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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