The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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 thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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