Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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One and God make a majority.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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