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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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 man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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 white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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