The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOur 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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