What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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