Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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