Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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 man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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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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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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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