It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSlaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFind 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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSHe who would be free must strike the first blow.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat 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 DOUGLASSIt’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEducate 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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFind 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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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