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Frederick Douglass Quote - 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.

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.

Frederick Douglass

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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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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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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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