Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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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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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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