Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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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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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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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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