What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTruth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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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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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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