A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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 white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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