A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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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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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