Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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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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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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