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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSMan’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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