Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEvery one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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One and God make a majority.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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