I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSBe not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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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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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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