The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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