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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTo suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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One and God make a majority.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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