The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe opposite of compromise is character.
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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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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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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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