I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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 had as well be killed running as die standing.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Immense 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.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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