It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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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