The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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One and God make a majority.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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