A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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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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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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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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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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