The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFind 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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One and God make a majority.
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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 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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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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