The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI had as well be killed running as die standing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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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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