One and God make a majority.
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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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 opposite of compromise is character.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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 great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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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I 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.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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