Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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