Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOne and God make a majority.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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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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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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One and God make a majority.
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