A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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