It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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One and God make a majority.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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Find 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.
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