A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSlaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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