The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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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 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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One and God make a majority.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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