The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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One and God make a majority.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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