A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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One and God make a majority.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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