A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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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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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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