Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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