Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhere 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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