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 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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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