Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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