Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTo make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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