The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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 didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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