I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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 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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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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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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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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One and God make a majority.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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