Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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