Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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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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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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