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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The 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.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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