The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSBe not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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One and God make a majority.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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 simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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