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 DOUGLASSThe white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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One and God make a majority.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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