The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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