It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOne and God make a majority.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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 little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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