I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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