One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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