It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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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 ballot is the only safety.
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