It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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 didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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