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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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