I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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 destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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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 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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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 struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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