Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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.
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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 limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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