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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOnce you learn to read, you will be forever free.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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 mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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