I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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 man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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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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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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