There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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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