It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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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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