Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTruth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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