Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSRight is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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