Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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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.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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One and God make a majority.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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