Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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 easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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One and God make a majority.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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