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.
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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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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, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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