Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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 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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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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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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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