I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSlaves 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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