My hopes were never brighter than now.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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One and God make a majority.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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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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