The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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To 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.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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