Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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