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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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?
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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