A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSImmense 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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