I had as well be killed running as die standing.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOne and God make a majority.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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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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