I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOne and God make a majority.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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