Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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 man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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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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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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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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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