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 man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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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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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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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