Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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 little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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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 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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