The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSMy hopes were never brighter than now.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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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 who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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